PBS "Broadway" & Big Apple; Bollywood (Follywood) (1975)

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PBS "BROADWAY" & BIG APPLE

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_261039.html
By Ed Blank
TRIBUNE-REVIEW FILM CRITIC
Sunday, October 17, 2004

If you haven't already purchased or don't plan to buy the videos or DVDs of
the six-hour miniseries "Broadway: The American Musical," which became
available Tuesday, you're going to want to tape it when PBS runs the episodes in pairs
this week.
(...)
Columnist Walter Winchell is credited with inventing the phrase The Big
Apple, which he started using in 1927. The nickname for New York City, though,
dates to at least the early 1920s. Horse-race reporter John Fitzgerald wrote in
1924 that it was the name given by New Orleans stable hands to New York
racetracks because of the apples fed to horses.

(It would be nice to make a nickel from this, after twelve years. Wonder what
they said about the origin of "Great White Way"--ed.)

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BOLLYWOOD

The NYPL had CINE BLITZ up to December 1975. From that issue, page 30:

THE (MISS) ADVENTURES OF RANIBAALA (Continuing comic strip--ed.)
by Keith Francis

OUR "NEVER-GIVE-UP" HEROINE FINALLY PERSUADES PRODUCER SAAB TO GIVE HER THAT
ELUSIVE SCREEN TEST AT TTHE FOLLYWOOD FILM STUDIOS.

(Producer--ed.) OH MY GOD! THREE HOURS LATE! SHE'S PUNCTUAL IN TRUE FILMI
STYLE!

(O.T. Off to Bhutan and Darjeeling. Be back November 9th...Dancing girls! I
want dancing girls!--Barry Popik)



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